DO NOT do this !!! Eventually you will wear through the tower leg. Danger.
73, Bruce K1MY
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Katz" <stevek@jmr.com>
To: "'Mike Gilmer, N2MG'" <n2mg@eham.net>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 1:06 PM
Subject: RE: [Towertalk] Brackets for Sidemounting "fixed" antennas
> Mike, why can't you use the normal boom-to-mast bracket that the beam
comes
> with, but use a tower leg for the "mast?" That's what I do...
>
> WB2WIK/6
>
> "If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." -
> Mario Andretti
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike Gilmer, N2MG [SMTP:n2mg@eham.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 12:05 PM
> > To: towertalk@contesting.com
> > Subject: Re: [Towertalk] Brackets for Sidemounting "fixed" antennas
> >
> > Been there... they sell Rohn 55 stuff but no mention of Rohn 25 or 45.
> > I've emailed them to see...
> >
> > Just to be clear, I don't need to tweak the antennas in azimuth at all -
> > both of my towers were layed out so that one tower face "points" at
> > Europe. So I don't "need" a stubby-mast kind of design which I have
> > seen.
> >
> > 73 Mike N2MG
> >
> > W1RG wrote:
> >
> > > Check out DX Engineering... They do that stuff..... ;->
> > >
> > > http://www.dxengineering.com/
> > >
> >
> > > Mike Gilmer, N2MG wrote:
> > >
> > > >Does anyone make a bracket for sidemounting a "fixed" yagi to Rohn 25
> > > >or Rohn 45? I don't want any rotating devices; I'm picturing a
simple
> > > >plate with holes for U-bolts.
> > > >
> > > >Of course I can make this myself - just wondering if any are
available
> > > >commercially...
> >
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